carcinogen

carcinogen:

see cancercancer,in medicine, common term for neoplasms, or tumors, that are malignant. Like benign tumors, malignant tumors do not respond to body mechanisms that limit cell growth......Click the link for more information..

carcinogen

[kär′sin·ə·jən]

(medicine)

Any agent that incites development of a carcinoma or any other sort of malignancy.

DBM has been reported to antagonize the mutagenicity of several chemical carcinogens in vitro and has recently been shown to be even more effective than curcumin in suppressing the 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced mammary tumors in rats.

Researchers are attempting to understand that potential link as a way of determining whether chemical carcinogens may be responsible for the onset of a subset of B precursor childhood ALL, the most common form of leukemia in children.

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